Venture Design - How to Create VC-Backable Business Ventures from Scratch FutureLearn

Overview

Develop the core skills you need to create your own backable business venture with this The Venture Design - How to Create VC-Backable Business Ventures from Scratch offered from Founders Factory by FutureLearn .

This business venture focused course from the Founders Factory will give aspiring entrepreneurs all the skills you need in order to build your own venture-backed, start-up business in a post COVID-19 world, and help upskill in the wake of widespread business collapse.

You’ll demystify the venture building process and will identify the core skills you need in order to come up with and test new venture business ideas from scratch.

Discover the components and lifecycle of venture backable businesses

After an overview of what makes a successful business venture, you’ll then investigate markets ripe for disruption, explore trends suitable for venture design, and come up with areas where your start-up business can flourish.

Measure the success of your business venture and learn to pitch to investors

You’ll go over your collated ideas, recognising challenges and assumptions early on, and will explore different ‘go to market’ ideas.

You’ll then learn how to validate these assumptions through experiment design and smoke testing, then will learn how to pitch and communicate your ideas effectively in a venture context to potential investors and raise venture capital.

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Describe the lifecycle and components of a top Venture Design business

• Investigate markets ripe for disruption

• Explore current trends and focus areas suitable for Venture Design

• Identify several Focus Areas that combine trends and markets that interest you

• Explore different customer segments

• Produce a market map which describes incumbents and challengers, and describes their qualities

• Identify unmet user needs through various methods for your Focus Areas

• Apply ideation techniques in a session to generate ideas for you venture

• Explore how you can flesh out your ideas and learn to differentiate

• Produce a New Venture Canvas with 3 detailed ideas

• Produce an assumption map

• Produce a go-to-market strategy plan

• Identify issues related to timing in your venture

• Summarise the ways in which assumptions can be tested and identify which methods are required to test your idea